For example a robotic butler for humans would have to comply with established rules of good service.

But c'mon brotha, where are the robotic butlers?

He serves as the robotic butler of the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh.

The thing is that Tolstoy's characters already lived in a "world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices":

Mr. Butlertron (voiced by Chris Miller) is Scudworth's sane robotic butler and reluctant sidekick in his stupid schemes.

On the moon, Luther is attended to by a robotic butler of sorts named Ben.

These characters live in a steampunk-inspired world of robotic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices.

Lluís Homar as Max, robotic butler.

In the TV show, Futurama, the robots are portrayed as humanoid figures that live alongside humans, not as robotic butlers.

But there are no atomic cars, no robotic butlers, no jet backpacks, no moon colonies, no universal cure for cancer.